CANTON, Ohio — A former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover sobbed on the witness stand Monday that he accidentally struck her when she wouldn’t let him out of her house.
“I didn’t mean to hurt her,” Bobby Cutts Jr. testified.
Cutts, 30, said he was at Jessie Davis’ home to pick up his 2 1/2-year-old son, Blake, and was telling her to hurry. He started to leave after she didn’t move more quickly to get Blake ready, he said, but she stopped him. He pointed his finger at her face, and she bit it, he testified.
Cutts tried to leave again, but Davis grabbed his arm and told him he couldn’t, the suspect testified. He pulled his arm away and threw his elbow back, telling jurors that it landed in Davis’ throat area and that she fell hard.
During four hours of testimony, Cutts also said he drove around with the body and later mulched his yard and went to work, trying to tell himself nothing was wrong.
Thousands searched for the 26-year-old Davis for more than a week until Cutts led authorities to the body, wrapped in a comforter in a park.
